Is it possible to bypass YouTube Copyright Violation?

[doctorm]

I was watching and capturing a live stream tonight. It cut off part way through and is now down for copyright violation and was hoping to watch it.

I figure a VPN might work, but I don't know what service could do it or what country wouldn't be affected.

Is there a way to do this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4nxVLtKgDA

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Until the owner fixes his video, most likely no.
https://unblockvideos.com/youtube-video-restriction-checker#url=a4nxVLtKgDA

[doctorm]

I was afraid of that. It's why I was ripping it live. The streamer tweaked something that made yt-dlp cut off and I didn't notice until the stream was taken down.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Maybe you can at least salvage what was downloaded until the cut off. You can upload the files yt-dlp managed to get, or the temp files, and someone could try restoring the fragmented video. No idea if it's possible but it's worth a try

[doctorm]

Unfortunately, yt-dlp repacked them into a single file which overwrote a lot of the part files.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Not relevant. As long as you didn't delete any file, just upload in a zip file somewhere, all of the leftover files from the failed yt-dlp download, no matter the file extension. Only the leftover files that are tied to the failed yt-dlp command.

[doctorm]

Can the streamer download or are they blocked as well until they fix the stream?
Edit: I do see that yt-dlp says "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked i in your country on copyright grounds".
Isn't there a geo setting or something that might be able to work with that or is it literally all countries?

[Frieren]

they reuploaded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wvFaC37yNM

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Can the streamer download or are they blocked as well until they fix the stream?
Edit: I do see that yt-dlp says "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked i in your country on copyright grounds".
Isn't there a geo setting or something that might be able to work with that or is it literally all countries?

You can't bypass youtube restrictions. If you can't watch it, you can't download it (and there's no country that can watch your original video). Luckily, as frieren said, they reuploaded it. So you can download it again from another link. In the future, if a yt-dlp command fails for a livestream and that livestream is lost, just keep all the temp files. You can salvage what you downloaded.

[doctorm]

@Frieren - I heard from the streamer that he can only get a re-encoded 720p version until his appeal is processed. That's what's been posted.

@2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi - I'm confused by 'salvage what you downloaded'. I do have the first 5 hours. When the stream skipped yt-dlp packed the file and it's a fine mp4 video without issue. It's everything afterwards that's missing because the downloading stopped.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

I was under the assumption that ytdlp failed and you had only temp files. It's good that it generated a valid mp4 file when it crashed.

[Frieren]

@Frieren - I heard from the streamer that he can only get a re-encoded 720p version until his appeal is processed. That's what's been posted.

@2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi - I'm confused by 'salvage what you downloaded'. I do have the first 5 hours. When the stream skipped yt-dlp packed the file and it's a fine mp4 video without issue. It's everything afterwards that's missing because the downloading stopped.

their video is back up. why do u want this video so badly too?

[doctorm]

I asked about downloading before they posted the back up version. Now I'm just trying to learn what is and isn't possible.

[doctorm]

Can the streamer download or are they blocked as well until they fix the stream?

For future reference, the uploader CAN download in full quality. While youtube only gives them a re-encoded 720p download link, they are the only one that can watch the true youtube link.

As such:
Start to watch the video in a compatible browser and copy the link. Vivaldi worked for me. Chrome did not.

yt-dlp.exe --restrict-filenames "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXX" --cookies-from-browser vivaldi -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"